Dwight Smith Jr.
| Dwight Smith Jr. | |||
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| Toronto Blue Jays – No. 15 | |||
| Outfielder | |||
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Born: October 26, 1992 Peachtree City, Georgia |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 18, 2017, for the Toronto Blue Jays | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2017 season) |
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| Batting average | .370 | ||
| Hits | 10 | ||
| Home runs | 0 | ||
| Runs batted in | 1 | ||
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John Dwight Smith Jr. (born October 26, 1992) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the son of former Major League Baseball player Dwight Smith.
Smith attended McIntosh High School and was drafted by the Blue Jays in the 1st round (53rd overall) of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft. Smith made his professional baseball debut in 2012 and split the season with the Rookie Bluefield Blue Jays and Low-A Vancouver Canadians, hitting a combined .212 with 4 home runs and 29 runs batted in (RBI). He spent the 2013 season with the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts, where he batted .284 in 109 games, with 7 home runs, 46 RBI, and 25 stolen bases.
Smith was promoted to the High-A Dunedin Blue Jays for the 2014 season. On April 6, 2014, he hit a pair of solo home runs against Cole Hamels, the first two home run game of his career. On August 26, the Blue Jays organization announced that Smith would play for the Mesa Solar Sox of the Arizona Fall League at the completion of the 2014 season. He finished the 2014 season having batted .284 in 121 games played, with 12 home runs and 60 RBI. He stole 15 bases, and posted an OPS over .800 for the first time in his career. On September 24, Smith was named the MVP for Dunedin in 2014. He was promoted to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats at the start of the 2015 season, and played the entire season there, batting .265 with 7 home runs and 44 RBI in 117 games played. Smith was not added to the Blue Jays 40-man roster at the end of the 2015 season, making him eligible for the Rule 5 draft. MLB columnist Jonathan Mayo named him one of the top available prospects heading into the draft.
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